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This dataset contains hydrological data collected at a series of leaky weirs on a working ranchland site in a semiarid ecosystem in Cochise County, Arizona, from 2018-2020. Leaky weirs are a type of structure being experimented with by land managers in aridlands to reduce peak flow events and increase recharge to the aquifer. The weirs are constructed of rock cemented into place in areas of exposed bedrock within the channel are built to allow for water to leak through slowly. Three sites were instrumented for monitoring, one control and two sites treated with ‘leaky weirs’. At each site, at least one pressure transducer was installed in a piezometer to measure water level. Each site also had multiple “3-in-1” gauges,...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Arizona,
Cochise,
Dos Cabezas,
Hydrology,
Land Use Change, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Water Resources,
ecosystem monitoring,
environment,
field methods,
hydrology,
watershed restoration, Fewer tags
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This dataset contains data used in the associated publication in the International Journal of Remote Sensing. The geodatabase contains four feature classes: AOI, MajorZone, MinorZone, and Green2007. Publication can be found at https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1437297. Publication abstract: Watershed restoration efforts seek to rejuvenate vegetation, biological diversity, and land productivity at Cienega San Bernardino, an important wetland in southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. Rock detention and earthen berm structures were built on the Cienega San Bernardino over the course of four decades, beginning in 1984 and continuing to the present. Previous research findings show that restoration supports...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Arizona,
Sonora,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
data release,
remote sensing, All tags...
spatial analysis,
vegetation,
watershed restoration,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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This dataset contains vegetation data collected at a variety of watershed restoration sites across southeastern Arizona over 5 years. The semiarid habitats in the Madrean Archipelago Ecoregion, which extends from southern Arizona into northern Mexico, are facing many challenges from climate change to land use change which threaten the ecological and cultural values of the region. Watershed restoration practitioners use a variety of techniques such as gabions, check dams, and cross vanes to reduce the effects of these threats and improve or maintain watershed function. Since vegetation dynamics in the area are driven by water availability, these restoration techniques appear to have secondary effects on the vegetation...
Tags: Arizona,
Botany,
Ecology,
Geography,
Southeastern Arizona, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
Water Resources,
arid lands,
ecosystem monitoring,
environment,
field inventory and monitoring,
grassland ecosystems,
natural resource management,
restoration,
sacaton grassland,
semiarid grassland,
watershed restoration,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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This zip file contains spatial, descriptive and digital camera image data for a vegetation field dataset collected on the San Carlos Apache Reservation and surrounding area in Arizona, and used for analysis in the associated publication. Data consists of vector point data, vegetation community type, field observations, and digital camera images that correspond with the images in the associated directory. This field data was used, in addition to historical field data from the SWReGAP project, to characterize the accuracy of the vegetation maps generated by the techniques described in the associated publication. The maps generated by these techniques did not improve on the accuracy of existing maps and are, therefore,...
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